SSH
You do not need Tailscale, a VPN app, or a mesh client on your laptop. Plain OpenSSH is enough. The brochure site may wear a padlock now; your login never needed one. Keys beat browser theater for this house.
ssh you@you.tharavad.xyz # example ssh alvin@alvin.tharavad.xyz # operators (admin keys only) ssh mothership@tharavad.xyz # mothership metal ssh edge@tharavad.xyz # edge front door
For members, the hostname is your name twice on purpose: user and machine
match the file under user-vms/. DNS for
*.tharavad.xyz (and the apex) points at the public front door;
members get jumped into their guest, operators use the apex user names above.
If it fails, check that your PR actually merged, that the key in the file is the private key you are offering, and that you are not still waiting on a rebuild. Still stuck: message @notrlyalvin.
Inside the box you have NixOS. There is no apt. Try
nix run nixpkgs#fastfetch or
nix shell nixpkgs#python3. Break things. That was the point when
you were 13, and it is still the point.